One person was killed after a plane plunged into a day care in Southwest Florida just before 8 a.m. Saturday.

Investigators say the small plane had just taken off from Page Field, a small executive airport in Fort Myers. The day care was empty at the time of the crash. It serves employees of a corporate office in Fort Myers.

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The passenger in the plane died at the scene. The pilot is in the hospital recovering. He is in good condition.

"When he passed the trees his wing clipped the trees, flipped over, hit the side of that building did a summersault landed in front and blew up," said a witness.

Another witness added, "Ten seconds after it hit, it exploded pretty loud and engulfed in flames pretty loud and the flames just got bigger and bigger."

The pilot tried to make an emergency landing in the moments before the crash, according to National Transportation Safety Board officials.